Is it possible to hand make an atmosphere? be serious plz?

Question

we have the sun which core is a fire ball but other planets like mars and pluto has ice cores so if we melt the ice at an incredible rate will all the vapors shoot out in to space or will they produce the correct gasses and compounds to prouduce a thin atmospher george brown theory is along the similar lines wot do u think.

Answer 1

Not like in "Total Recall", but over a long, long time, with expenditure of much energy...

http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/terraform.asp

Answer 2

That is neither hand made nor possible. To be hand made means I touched it with my fingers and made it. Therefore, no, it is not possible. You cannot melt a planet with an "ice" core. Nor does Mars have an "ice" core", it's a molten core just like the Earth. IF pluto has a core of ice, then it's just different than the Earth. Somehow though, I doubt you'd ever be able to melt it and "shoot" out all the vapors at incredible rates as you think.

Besides, how can you make an atmosphere for a planet that doesn't exist?

Answer 3

Terraforming is the art of making new Earths or transforming hostile planets into life-bearing ones. The word terraform is derived from the latin 'terra' meaning earth plus 'form' meaning shape.

The key principal of terraforming is to artificially create an atmosphere capable of supporting life. The idea particularly took off during the late 1950's - 1960's; due to a combination of post war/cold war fear of nuclear catastrophe, advances in space technology and the idea we needed safety nets. So that if meteorite struck earth or war takes out earth and civilisation collapses, the human race will not become extinct.

The most probabale terraformed atmospheres use domed city complexes on another planet in which the atmosphere - gravity, levels of oxygen and other gasses, water vapour etc can be controlled in a similar way to that within things like space stations.

More radical proponants of the concept will talk you through whole planet ways of raising or lowering a planets temperature, gravity, water ratio's etc. A good lecture outline can be found at http://www.paulbirch.net/CustomPlanets.html

Meanwhile back on earth we have sadly spent decades anti-terraforming and destroying our atmosphere through green house gass emmissions principally Carbon Dioxide leading to climate change.

We are in a position however to choose to positively change our atmosphere back, by using less heating and electricity, choosing less environmentally harmfull products, using public transport and our legs more and opposing environmentally poor developments.
Happy Terraforming here on earth
+ You could join the Green Party

Answer 4

Yes. That's called terraforming.

People have been speculating how to do that with Mars.

See the link.

But if you want to go to the lengths of going to another planet and reprocess its atmosphere to one that's habitable by humans, why not just stay on earth and try to change our atmosphere to reverse the effects of pollution? That way we don't have to transport 6.5 billion people off the planet to this newly habitable planet.

Answer 5

it may create an atomosphere but what about the difference in gravitational force. mars for instance is much larger than earth and therefore would have a greater gravitational force (moon is smaller and has less gravitational force). point is that there are many things to consider to make a planet habitable. we just got lucky with earth.

Answer 6

Good DJ's do this all the time!

Flippancy aside, though, terraforming is theoretically possible. World peace is also theoretically possible.

I wonder which is more likely?

Answer 7

We have to take over Mars or Venus first....

Answer 8

Sometimes.

Answer 9

i dunno, first of all how will you melt all that ice? u kno we made fun of einstein and so many more theories before realising they were right. so yea, might be some good ideas in wat you said...